Borgia v. City of New York

Full title: PAUL BORGIA et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant, BARASCH…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 22, 1999

259 A.D.2d 648 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

685 N.Y.S.2d 628

Opinion

March 22, 1999

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bernstein, J.).

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court correctly determined that the underlying agreement between the plaintiffs' first counsel in this action, Dominick F. Callo, P. C. (hereinafter Callo), and the second counsel, McDonough, Marcus, Cohn Tretter, P. C. (hereinafter McDonough), entitles Callo at this juncture to 33 1/3% of the entirety of the attorneys' fees recovered herein, notwithstanding any subsequent fee-sharing arrangements between McDonough and the third successive attorney for the plaintiffs, Barasch McGarry, P. C. ( see, Benjamin v. Koeppel, 85 N.Y.2d 549, 556; Witt v. Cohen, 192 A.D.2d 528; Gore v. Kressner, 157 A.D.2d 575; Sterling v. Miller, 2 A.D.2d 900, affd 3 N.Y.2d 778).

O'Brien, J. P., Ritter, Joy and Altman, JJ., concur.